June 2011 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Participation Requested: Survey about Open-Source Software Development
by Jeffrey Carver 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi, Drs. Jeffrey Carver, Rosanna Guadagno, Debra McCallum, and Mr. Amiangshu Bosu, University of Alabama, and Dr. Lorin Hochstein, University of Southern California, are conducting a survey of open-source software developers. This survey seeks to understand how developers on distributed, virtual teams, like open-source projects, interact with each other to accomplish their tasks. You must be at least 19 years of age to complete the survey. The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. If you are actively participating as a developer, please consider completing our survey. Here is the link to the survey: http://goo.gl/HQnux We apologize for inconvenience and if you receive multiple copies of this email. This survey has been approved by The University of Alabama IRB board. Thanks, Dr. Jeffrey Carver Assistant Professor University of Alabama (v) 205-348-9829 (f) 205-348-0219 http://www.cs.ua.edu/~carver

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How to run multiple email modules at the same time?
by Ernst Plüss 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

For our D7 websites we often have the need to run multiple email modules at the same time. Let's make an example: We want to sent mime encoded emails, make sure every email gets logged and we want to send it using smtp. There are nice modules for this: http://drupal.org/project/mimemail, http://drupal.org/project/maillog and http://drupal.org/project/smtp. But there's a problem. All of them do register itself as the default mail system. This means only one of them can exist at the same time. There's no way of letting them coexist and do their job one after the other. The mail system variable allows to set different mail_systems for specific modules and/or keys. But that doesn't help. Even if we would take the work and set maillog as the mail system for all our email sending modules. How can we sent them via smtp after they have been logged? I think that the only solution is a central registry, similar to what hook_filter_info (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--filter--filter.api.php/function/h…) hook_node_info (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--node--node.api.php/function/hook_…) or the wysiwyg module (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg) are doing for their particular need. Therefore I've written a module providing the appropriate hooks. Since the idea is to wire together mail modules I called it mailwire (http://drupal.org/project/mailwire) I provided also integration patches for some mail modules. Unfortunately I do not get a lot of feedback from the module maintainers. What would be the right approach to start a discussion and find a common solution? I think it would be big plus if Drupal would have an easy way to run any number of email formatting and sending modules in parallel. Regards Ernst

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Fieldsets and variable names
by jeff＠ayendesigns.com 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

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D6 XML & 'head' - bug or unwanted feature?
by Jeff Greenberg 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

I create an xml file in D6 from code that should result in: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UT-8"?> <video> <headline>mytext</headline> </video> What it results in is (I'll omit the xml tag for brevity's sake...it comes out fine) <video> <headline><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ut-8" /> mytext </headline> </video> If I put tags above, say, <dummy>mytext</dummy>, I get <video> <dummy>mytext</dummy> <headline><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ut-8" /> mytext </headline> </video> If I put the <meta> info in the output myself at the top, I get <video> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ut-8" /> <headline><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ut-8" /> mytext </headline> </video> What DOES work, in terms of getting the meta tag out of the <headline> tag, is to put another tag before it with the word 'head' , resulting in <video> <headdummy><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ut-8" /> mytext </headdummy> <headline>mytext</headline> </video>

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arrays
by Tolga 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to ask Drupal related PHP questions, so please bear with me. I've got two arrays and a form like below: /* * This function stuffs currency codes into an array, * check the TCMB XML file for matching records, and * displays the relevant code's exchange rates in a table */ function tcmb_get_currencies() { $tcmb_cur_codes = array( 1 => 'USD', 2 => 'CAD', 3 => 'XDR', 4 => 'DKK', 5 => 'SEK', 6 => 'CHF', 7 => 'NOK', 8 => 'JPY', 9 => 'SAR', 10 => 'KWD', 11 => 'AUD', 12 => 'EUR', 13 => 'GBP', 14 => 'RUB', 15 => 'RON', 16 => 'IRR', 17 => 'BGN', 18 => 'DEM', 19 => 'BEF', 20 => 'LUF', 21 => 'ESP', 22 => 'FRF', 23 => 'IEP', 24 => 'ITL', 25 => 'NLG', 26 => 'ATS', 27 => 'PTE', 28 => 'FIM', 29 => 'GRD' ); $tcmbXML = new DomDocument(); $tcmbXML->load('http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/kurlar/today.xml'); $currency = array(); $rows = array(); $result = variable_get('tcmb_currency', $currency); // Let's find out if $result is a variable if (!is_array($result)) { watchdog('Error: The tcmb_currency variable was not an array.'); drupal_set_message(t('Error: The tcmb_currency variable was not an array.')); return; } foreach ($result as $tcmb) { $tcmb_cur = $tcmb['currency']; $currency[] = $tcmb_cur; $curcode = $tcmb_cur_codes[$tcmb_currency]; $buy = $tcmbXML->getElementsByTagName('ForexBuying')->item($tcmb_cur)->nodeValue; $sell = $tcmbXML->getElementsByTagName('ForexSelling')->item($tcmb_cur)->nodeValue; $rows[] = array($curcode, $buy, $sell); } $header = array('', t('BUYING'), t('SELLING')); $output = theme('table', $header, $rows); return $output; } ... ... ... /* * This function generates the form and allows the admin to set the currency code(s). */ function tcmb_settings_form() { $form = array(); $form['tcmb_currency'] = array( '#title' => t('Currency code'), '#default_value' => variable_get('tcmb_currency', array()), '#type' => 'checkboxes', '#options' => array(1 => t('American Dollar'), 2 => t('Canadian Dollar'), 3 => t('Special D. Rights'), 4 => t('Danish Krone'), 5 => t('Swedish Krona'), 6 => t('Swiss Franc'), 7 => t('Norwegian Krone'), 8 => t('Japanese Yen'), 9 => t('Saudi Arabian Riyal'), 10 => t('Kuwaiti Dinar'), 11 => t('Australian Dollar'), 12 => t('Euro'), 13 => t('Great Britain Pounds'), 14 => t('Russian Ruble'), 15 => t('Romanian Leu'), 16 => t('Iranian Riyals'), 17 => t('Bulgarian Lev'), 18 => t('German Marc'), 19 => t('Belgian Franc'), 20 => t('Luxembourgian Franc'), 21 => t('Spanish Peseta'), 22 => t('French Franc'), 23 => t('Irish Pound'), 24 => t('Italian Lira'), 25 => t('Dutch Guilder'), 26 => t('Austrian Schilling'), 27 => t('Portuguese Escudo'), 28 => t('Finnish Mark'), 29 => t('Greek Drachma')), ); return system_settings_form($form); }; As you can see, I'm trying to return a table with the relevant rates in it. However, whatever I check, I get USD rates, and also it lists all 29 values (all USD by the way) even if there are only 2. What do I need to do? Regards,

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Drupal core initiatives
by Daniel F. Kudwien 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi initiative owners, participants, and developers, I'd like to urge you to move more or ideally all conversations that are currently held in private into the public, to this list. Open brainstorming, roadmap and proposal-style discussions and conversations are actually what mailing lists still excel in. - Everyone can chime in. No one is excluded. - Threads and sub-topics can be spawned easily, at any time, and are still tracked by everyone. - Discussions don't need to be announced, the discussion is the announcement. It's debatable whether the Development list is suitable or whether there should be a separate list. However, a new list would require infrastructural changes and everyone to sign up, and regardless of whether that is going to happen, we have this list here, so let's use it. Background: I'm very concerned about the initial and ongoing communication regarding D8 initiatives. Major technical discussions happen completely in private among a few peers only. Concrete proposals are worked out in the dark, presented as semi-final to the community, often not including considerations that led to certain suggested parts/details in a proposal, leaving little room for actual, open, and friendly discussions. Lastly, without some form of public announcement (which varies these days given Twitter, mailing lists, d.o issues, etc), no one knows that a post exists somewhere in the first place. I'm personally trying hard to follow and track all initiative discussions, and I bet it's not only me. But given their diversity/location on d.o and g.d.o, g.d.o's extremely poor subscriptions system, and the fact that many details aren't discussed in the public in the first place, it's practically impossible to stay in the loop. Most of these private conversations happen in e-mails already. So it's merely a matter of changing the recipient for your next mail/reply. Please do so. I also bet that most discussions on g.d.o posts would've worked much better as mailing list threads. Of course, final conclusive summaries gathered from discussions still make sense to be posted and updated on d.o or g.d.o. But most of the discussions were held in free form, chaos style brainstorming, partially spawned into sub-discussions, so a mailing list thread would have worked way better for everyone, since no one needs to subscribe to track the details. Thanks, sun

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Improving Drupal performance using native gettext for translations
by Pedro Lozano 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi, I'd like to know if anyone has ever experimented with making Drupal use the php gettext extension to retrieve the string translations from a binary gettext file (.mo)? We have recently made a patch that allows Drupal to do this. We published a blog post about it last week. The pre-compile gettext file is created with "msgfmt -o messages.mo drupal-es.po". When you place it at sites/whatever/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo, Drupal detects it and uses the gettext function to retrieve the translations from the file. It improves performance even in a clean Drupal install. Of course you loose the flexibility of the string translating interface but for sites with little changes to the translations and where performance is key this helps with hardware resources and scalability. This week we will be at Barcelona Drupal Days and for the code sprint we've planned to make some kind of interface that allows you to generate the .mo file directly from Drupal. Could this patch be proposed for D8, D7, D6, Pressflow? -- Pedro Lozano peterlozano(a)gmail.com | http://peterlozano.com pedro(a)al.quimia.net | http://al.quimia.net +34 ( 667836318 | 956396515 )

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Subscribe to Drupal core initiatives g.d.o
by Christian López Espínola 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi Gábor, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor(a)hojtsy.hu> wrote: > > Hi, > > Well, our current approach is to use g.d.o group posts in the Drupal > Initiatives group that anyone can sign up for. The group is at > http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-initiatives > Where in other groups I find the 'Join group' link, in this one I see: "This is an invite only group. The group administrators add/remove members as needed." I cannot find how to sign up. Does it require an invitation? Thank you. > > [...] > Gábor -- Christian López Espínola Área de Proyectos Emergya Consultoría Tfno: +34 954 51 75 77 Fax: +34 954 51 64 73 www.emergya.es

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Get the form for a node
by Fernando Conceição 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

I have searched a lot, but dont find the right way to do this. So what i want is to load the form for a node, the same form as if i am editing a node, something like: $node = node_load(1); $form = get_the_edit_form_for_this_node($node); I try: $node = node_load(1); $form = drupal_get_form('article_node_form', $node); But the resulting $form do not have the fields and the values for this node. Thanks for any help.

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Programatically creating users w/Field API data
by Rob Thorne 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

I'm looking for the "recommended recipe" for a common task -- creating users programatically. I'm trying to do this in D7 more or less the way it was done in D6 -- create an $edit array with the key attributes (name, mail, status), and passing it to user_save(). This works, but while I can save away Field API fields this way, the hack I'm using feels too low level. Here's what I mean. As far as I can tell, you need to do something like this: $edit = array( 'name' => "Killroy", 'mail' => 'killroy(a)washere.net", 'status' => 1, 'field_graffiti_location' => array( 'und' => array(0 => array('value' => '2nd and Main')), ), ); Pass this as user_save(NULL, $edit), and if users are set up with the field 'field_graffiti_location', and it does work -- user_save() calls the needed Field API calls to attach the data. Now, I worked this out using a debugger -- I haven't found any example code for this so far. But it strikes me as a very low level way of doing this, and fragile. Given that Fields were intended to make life simpler, I'm thinking There's Gotta Be A Better Way To Do This. Especially when we start talking about multi-valued fields and/or fields that take advantages of multi-lingual content. Is there? Are there recommended setters and getters for fields attached to an instance of an entity, or do developers need to muck around with what are basically Field API internals in order to do this? Rob Thorne Torenware Networks

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